Fontanka Quotes

#1. We'll meet again in Lvov, my love and I ... Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

Paullina Simons

#2. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.

Amor Towles

#3. It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

George Eliot

#4. The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.
That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

Daniel Alarcon

#5. (Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

Max DePree

#6. I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

Chrissy Teigen

#7. Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses.

Camron Wright

#8. Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Eric Chaisson

#9. Whether or not he wanted me the same way I wanted him, we were in this together - that was what Robinson had said. It had never occurred to me before what a complicated word together was.

James Patterson

#10. When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Dexter Gordon

#11. I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.

Hillary Clinton

#12. Well, here's the trick about money. The understanding that it is available in unlimited supply and readily replaceable changes everything.

Dan S. Kennedy